This parish was erected in 1505 and confirmed in 1510 as an annexe of Casarabonela. However, the parish church built in the upper part of the village dates back to 1578. In 1605 it needed extensive restoration work on the roofs, floors, tower staircase and sacristy, completed by Francisco de Medina and carried out by the mason Jerónimo Hernández, following the instructions of Pedro Díaz de Palacios, master builder of Malaga Cathedral.
The present church was built in the 18th century on the site of the old one and possibly partly using it. It was built by Felipe Pérez el menor, a master architect, who erected it between 1770 and 1774.
This church has a Latin cross floor plan with a wooden roof, even in the transept, and at the base there is a small tribune on a segmental arch. Two square chapels covered with groin vaults are inserted in the angles that form the arms of the transept with the nave, to which two polygonal chapels open, with remains of plasterwork in one of them. The chancel is reinforced with an exterior wall that surrounds it, leaving a small corridor between them.
The exterior is made of plastered masonry with a semicircular arch in its main doorway, between recessed pilasters supporting an entablature with a tiled inscription that alludes to the reconquest of the town in 1484. The side façade has a simpler composition, with grooved bands.
The tiles of this inscription allude to its creation as a parish church in 1622, as it had previously depended on Casarabonela. These inscriptions, as well as a large part of the church, are greatly affected by the restoration carried out in 1953, as it had been completely destroyed at the end of the war.
The tower rises next to the chancel, is square, solid and unadorned, except for the bell tower, which is octagonal, with a pyramidal roof and opens on its four main sides with semicircular arches, the others being covered by a thin band opened in the middle by an oculus, which emerges at the base of a corbel crowned by a pine cone that marks the transition from square to octagon.